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During the reign of the Indian king Ashoka the Maurya Empire was vast.It stretched from Afghanistan and Pakistan ,covering almost all the Indian subcontinent and up to Bangladesh. One of his edicts was a bilingual inscription …
Not one language. One important thing you should know about Aramaic is that it was not uniform.It went through many different phases and developed into numerous dialects which were written in various versions of the Aramaic scri…
The Phoenician script was mainly a consonantal script marking only consonants and because of that many ambiguities arised.In a few cases consonant letters were used both for consonants and vowels to help clarify what is being …
By Tim Downling for The Guardian. Its alleged anti-semitism isn't the only problem with Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. There's also the small matter of it being in Aramaic. To help enrich your enjoyment, …
I have started studing Aramaic grammar and this is what I have learned so far.If you have knowledge of Aramaic grammar feel free to comment. Nouns in Aramaic decline according to gender,state and number.They come in two ge…
Days of the week in Targumic Aramaic In the table below are the days of the week in Targumic Aramaic.In other dialects there might be some minor differences in the pronounciation. Day in Targumic Aramaic is yom ( יום )…
Aramaic was written mostly in consonants from right to left just like Phoenician from which it derived .It was originally used for the Aramaic language which was actually a whole group of West Semitic languages. Later two great…
It is generally agreed that Jesus spoke Galilean Aramaic ,what scholars call Jewish Palestinian Aramaic.It is also hypothesized that he also spoke Hebrew and even some Greek and Latin. At the time Aramaic was a major language …
The sun in Syriac Aramaic is šemšā (ܫܡܫܐ) .The root of the word is šm(š).We have many Aramaic names with the šamaš element dating from the Neo-Assyrian,Neo-Babylonian and Achaemanid Empire periods.
The Lord's prayer in Galilean Aramaic,the native language of Jesus Christ himself does not exist as in an original form.There are, though, linguistic reconstructions of it since Galilean Aramaic remains to this day a very sca…
